Extrusion Setter

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) : Where purpose comes to life

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for good enough when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments.

And where is our help most needed? The places we live in : cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.

It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for an Extrusion Setter - Doncaster to join us. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The Role

Responsible for the manufacture of hot and cold product to strict quality standards.

Main Responsibilities

• Set up, operate, and control production machinery in accordance with appropriate process conditions.
• Ensure that the product remains within quality control specifications by sampling product, testing product, and making suitable and appropriate process adjustments when required.
• Maintain necessary documentation including shift report, process logs, quality check sheets and other records as required.
• Basic tooling work on hot and cold production processes.
• Trouble shooting across the hot and cold production processes.
• Autonomous maintenance on all hot and cold production processes.
• Basic fault finding and troubleshooting on all hot and cold production processes.
• Mentor Apprentices and assistants within the Extrusion / Moulding departments.

Profile

• Good knowledge of the production processes within the Manufacturing sector, and have the drive to succeed.
• Preferably 1-2 years experience of injection moulding / extrusion production processes
• Knowledge of Health and Safety processes and practices
• Knowledge of Process Controls
• Knowledge of Quality Standards
• Knowledge of Condition Setting
• Knowledge of Understanding of all Tooling and Equipment
• Knowledge of Undestanding of Polymer Characteristics
• Good knowledge of the production processes within the Manufacturing sector
• Basic PC skills
• Natural ability to motivate and lead teams in an ever changing environment
• Effective organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be self-motivated and self-starting.
• Must demonstrate a positive and enthusiastic attitude to the attainment of objectives.
• Must demonstrate a positive attitude towards continuous improvement.
• Desire to succeed.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company.

We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. and we embrace diversity in perspecives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world.

Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day.

is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive and benefit package.

Organisation

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry.

Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens.

Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes.

Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Our key commercial brands are : Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia a company driven by a shared purpose : to advance life around the world.

Orbia operates in several sectors including : Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura).

These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions.

Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.

The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.